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“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.”

— A.M. Sawyer

“If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like…

— Margaret Atwood

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.”

— Aileen M. Kelly

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

— Archibald MacLeish

“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

“Literature is what intelligent people have instead of dope.”

— Patrick Hemingway